Devil!
"The three-year promise …" Xia Fei lit a cigarette and muttered to himself.
Yujiang and Yuhua came quickly and left just as quickly. They had planted a seed of unease in Xia Fei's heart. Three years, three Great Laws, an unfamiliar place, and experts in the universe …
These questions lingered in Xia Fei's mind for a very long time.
It could not be denied that Yujiang's appearance had given Xia Fei the biggest shock of his life. Everything he knew about strength and the strong had been overturned. Yujiang, who had grasped the Law of Space, had used his actions to tell Xia Fei that there really were monsters in this world who could summon clouds and rain with a flip of their hands, and he had even given Xia Fei a chance to become one.
To call it an opportunity, Xia Fei's keen senses told him that it contained a huge risk, but to call it dangerous, it could not hide the fact that it was an opportunity.
The corner of his lips curled up slightly. Xia Fei's theory of the price had calmed him down once more. Risk and opportunity always coexisted, and behind every great danger was a great opportunity!
Snuffing out the cigarette in the ashtray, the little robot Lil Pea immediately walked over to take away the metal box with the cigarette butt and replaced it with a clean one. Xia Fei often felt that Lil Pea was a germaphobe and could not stand the slightest bit of dirt. As long as there was dust anywhere, he would immediately clean it up.
Furball lazily lay on the sofa, its body buried in a pile of magazines like a dozing cat.
Xia Fei could not forget how ferocious Furball was when he fought Yujiang to the death. Perhaps Furball's ferocity was Furball's true nature. Fortunately, the target of Furball's anger was not him, and it would never be him. To Xia Fei, this was something very gratifying. It turned out that the seemingly lazy and cunning Furball was actually a warlike character. Once it grew a little older, it would surely be of more help to him.
"Thanks, lazy thing," Xia Fei jokingly scolded Furball.
Furball unhappily shook its plump body, ignoring Xia Fei as it continued to sleep.
Lil Pea replaced the ashtray and brought Xia Fei a cup of tea. Xia Fei stood in the middle of the command deck and stared at that energy ball floating in the air, wondering what Yujiang had left behind before he left.
Xia Fei, I suddenly thought of something, Phantom said after a few moments of thought.
Xia Fei smiled. "What problem?"
Gui Ying rubbed his chin and said, "You've heard of exotic beasts protecting their masters, but do you also know of exotic beasts following their masters?"
Xia Fei nodded. "There are specific records in the Beast Spirit Codex. Many exotic beasts' personalities will change according to their masters' personalities, especially those intelligent exotic beasts that have been raised from a young age. They're more likely to have the same personality as their masters. There are also some exotic beasts that will absorb their masters' aura, and they'll easily become like their masters."
Halfway through his sentence, Xia Fei suddenly realized what Phantom was trying to say. He laughed. "You can't be trying to say that Furball's personality is the same as mine, right?"
"You've already sensed it?" Spiritshadow said in surprise.
Xia Fei nearly spat out a mouthful of tea. He pointed at Furball on the sofa and said, "I'll be thanking the heavens if that lazy ball is even half as good as I am. It's a lazy eater with a crafty personality. There's not even a hint of me in it."
"You're not cunning enough?" Phantom asked maliciously. "Say it yourself. How many crafty ideas have you come up with ever since I met you? From what I can see, Furball's craftiness must've been learned from you."
Xia Fei was slightly taken aback. What Phantoms said did make some sense. Xia Fei had always believed in being unscrupulous for the sake of victory, and he was indeed quite crafty, but Xia Fei still found it hard to accept that Phantoms would compare him to Furball in the same breath.
"Animals will usually think that the first living being they see is their mother. Furball was born right in front of you, so he's learning your habits very much in line with the habits of exotic beasts. Besides, he lived in your embrace for several months before he was born, so he must've absorbed a lot of your aura in secret.
"You were also the one who fed him after he was born, and it's not just your Heart of Spirit. Furball even likes to eat your energy clones. Now that he's signed a blood contract with you, they're exchanging information even more frequently, so Furball has a shadow of you in him, and his personality is getting closer and closer to yours."
Xia Fei was noncommittal. According to the Beast Spirit Codex, what Phantom had just said was indeed the necessary conditions for an exotic beast to follow its master.
"You saw it with your own eyes just now. When Yujiang controlled you, Furball's ferocity was practically the same as when you were fighting your enemies, which is why I thought of all this."
Xia Fei shrugged, not continuing the conversation with Phantom. It was not necessarily a bad thing for Furball to learn from him. He was like a small sapling; before it bloomed, there was no telling what it would grow into in the future. At the very least, learning from him would prevent it from growing too crooked.
Circling around that ball of light left behind by Yujiang a few times, Xia Fei tried to touch it with his hand. The moment his finger touched the ball of light, he suddenly felt a numbing sensation on his fingertip, and an electric current shot into Xia Fei's mind!
* Whoosh! *
A screen suddenly appeared in the middle of the command deck. On it was a massive insectoid fleet, densely packed like a swarm of locusts. Among them were several hundred extremely intimidating capital ships!
The destination of this fleet was actually the Venal Galaxy! This was the capital of the Pan-human Alliance, the core of humanity!
Xia Fei was stunned. To him, the greatest significance of the Venal Galaxy was not the capital but rather Avril's home. There was a high chance that this was footage of the insectoid ambush several months ago. Who knew where Yujiang had gotten his hands on this?
The mention of Venal would naturally involve Avril, Xia Fei's most beloved girl, which was why he furrowed his brows as he carefully watched the footage, hoping to find some evidence that she was still alive.
Xia Fei had told himself countless times that a kind and cute girl like Avril would surely be lucky, but he had never been able to find any evidence. His heart was constantly conflicted over the fall of Venal and the disappearance of Avril.
* Bang! * Bang! *
The warship let out an earth-shattering roar! Shooting down one civilian spaceship after another, the Alliance Defense Force put up a fierce resistance. Unfortunately, in front of the powerful insectoid fleet, their feeble struggle was no different from a mantis trying to stop a chariot, and they were defeated within a few rounds.
All of a sudden, Xia Fei noticed a civilian spaceship with a spiderweb-like emblem on it. It was none other than Starlink Corporation's emblem!
As if knowing that Xia Fei was paying attention to this ship, the image immediately switched to a closer view.
All he saw was a pale-faced girl standing in front of the porthole, her eyes filled with fear and unease as she stared at the tragic scene in space. Her lips were slightly trembling as if she had suffered a severe shock. That beautiful face was so familiar that Xia Fei would still be able to remember it even if it was reduced to ashes!
"Avril!" Xia Fei panicked. He pulled at his hair like a madman, for in the distance, he could see the insectoid warships approaching Avril! The pitch-black muzzles of their cannons were aimed at that innocent girl!
"No! Noooo!" Xia Fei yelled. It did not sound like it was coming from his throat but more like it was coming from his heart!
* Bang! *
The giant insectoid dreadnought launched its attack!
Cannon fire instantly engulfed the civilian spaceship that Avril was on!
…
Somewhere far away from Xia Fei, Yuhua recalled the energy ball he had left behind before he left, so he asked, "Patriarch, just what was the last gift you gave Xia Fei?"
Yu Jiang smiled and said, "I will give him whatever he is most afraid of."
"What's he most afraid of?"
"Heh heh. That's a mental imprint. Anyone who touches it will trigger a series of reactions. There's always something in a person's heart that they're worried about or afraid of, and Xia Fei is no different. As long as he touches that energy ball, an image will immediately appear, and the content of the image will be what he least wants to see," Yujiang explained.
Yuhua was enlightened. "So you're saying that you're trying to test Xia Fei's bottom line? You just had to pick the image that he least wants to see and show it to him. "
Yujiang said, "Xia Fei is very unyielding, and even my pressure wasn't able to make him yield, but everyone has a weak side, and even a man made of steel is no exception. This can also be considered a form of attack. It's his fault for not giving me any face today."
Yuhua laughed heartily. "Patriarch, that's a brilliant idea. Xia Fei might be feeling depressed by himself right now. Since pressure isn't enough to make him yield, we can directly poke at the biggest shadow in his heart. What a great method."
Yujiang smiled as he put away the koi on the ground and walked toward the bustling city with Yuhua, saying, "The reason why I'm doing this isn't just to provoke him. You know how dangerous our circle is. If you want to succeed, you'll need to let go of all the burdens in your heart and bear the pressure that others can't. He still has three years of easy days to live, but once he's here, it's no longer up to him. Poking at the demon in his heart is also helping him adapt to this dog-eat-dog environment ahead of time."
Yuhua was slightly taken aback before he respectfully said, "Old ancestor, I've learned quite a bit from you today. Yuhua has learned a lot."
…
Xia Fei did not know that everything he had seen was actually an illusion. In that instant, his last hope was cruelly snuffed out just like that. He could only watch as the woman he loved disappeared right in front of his eyes, unable to do anything to help her. This kind of cruelty was unimaginable to the average person.
The scene had long since disappeared, and Xia Fei was like a wounded beast, standing there in a daze. He wanted to cry, but he could not. His mind was blank, and there was a piercing pain in his heart that reached all the way to his bones.
Phantom gulped. He had never seen Xia Fei so haggard before. In just a few short minutes, Xia Fei seemed to have aged ten years.
Even Furball, who only knew how to eat and sleep, could sense that there was something different about Xia Fei. He crawled out from the pile of magazines, wanting to experience Xia Fei's heartache. Alas, there was no way an exotic beast could understand this kind of despair.
Furball and Xia Fei's hearts were connected, and Xia Fei's heartache made Furball feel incomparably angry. However, he did not understand why he was so angry or why his heart was aching. He only hoped to find an outlet to vent, to release all this uncomfortable feeling in his heart.
The little robot Lil Pea was anxiously running around, bringing Xia Fei tea one moment and food the next, begging its master to be a little happier. Unfortunately, Xia Fei could not see its efforts at all, for the indescribable sorrow had already drowned him.
For several hours, Xia Fei stood there, not saying a word or making a sound.
Suddenly, his figure swayed, and Furball, Phantom, and Lil Pea were all stunned.
Raising their heads, they saw that Xia Fei was no longer smiling and cheerful. His cold gaze caused Phantom to involuntarily shiver, and no one dared to meet Xia Fei's gaze.
Just how savage and angry was this?!
Phantom thought for a long time and could only think of one word to describe it.
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